world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom. ukraine s president zelenskyy is urging the world to respond after russia launched what ukraine calls the largest attack on it since the beginning of the war. fighting to stay on the ballot. former president donald trump is trying to keep his name from being removed from yet another state s primary election. and new york beefs up security ahead of new year s eve. an inside look at how police are keeping an eye on the celebrations. announcer: live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. three regions in ukraine are holding a day of mourning right now after what military officials called the largest russian attack on the country since the war began. in the city of odesa, a christmas tree is standing in a courtyard damaged in the strikes. the tree was praised as a victory of light over darkness. kyiv says russian drones and missiles pummeled cities across the country on friday, killing at least 31 people
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ah, well, it s actually still, for me, very exciting to be here. but i m trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasn t it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 years on, we were £1.5 million in debt, tearing our hair out, and realised that, you know, this is very marginal land. we re walking on 320 metres of clay, over a bedrock of limestone, and it s an absolute pig to farm. so you were literally close to going out of business? yeah, the farm was a failing business. and we did everything we could. we diversified, we tried different crops, we tried different cows. we sold ice cream. we did everything we could. but always it was this clay that was ag
i get to work here. and itjust makes me like show up more. you feel happy being in this space. i can see that. and i m actually quite. when i cook, i m quite manic about cleaning up as i go along, unlike my husband, who leaves a sort of minor nuclear disaster. that s me! iam. how can you cook like that? ..a total disaster. and then ijust throw everything in the sink and it s a big pile of dishes. and then wejust. we work our way through it. by the way, you have so many cookbooks. i have a few. out of the corner of my eye. i collect cookbooks, but nothing like on the scale that you do. i m obsessive. can we have a peek? can we have a look? come on. i love that. this is my collection of things that i use almost all the time. if i m looking for. like, what would a good french bavette, like a flank steak be? i ll just start looking in french cookbooks and just say, oh, that s interesting. julia child would do this and patricia wells would do that, and just kind of collect in
me the latest on the situation. it is quite striking, as you say. the first time in more than a year since a russian missile was able to penetrate the kyiv air defences and i think that is a reflection of air defences across ukraine being overwhelmed in the way that they have, you have heard what the air force is saying and i think that it s really telling something. more than 18 strategic bomber aircraft were used by russia, it says almost every type of missile was launched, up up top the only ones not used were ones launched from the sea and you take all of these things together, living in the west, that bill is far from the conflict, once a city for millions of ukrainians escaped to go on to the border to poland and romania, we have seen damage to a high rise building, in odesa, some extensive damage in dnipro, we are told a shopping centre was hit, kharkiv in the north east, hit more regularly because it s only a0 miles from the russian border, people get used to living w